Private 2-Day Mount Toubkal Trek from Marrakech

1. Hassan was amazing (our guide) 2. The trip could have been better, it was quite disorganized (not our guide’s fault) 3. We paid for private (did group, just book the group it was for the best) 4. This is not an easy hike (8 miles each way, 4,000 ft of climb) (5hrs per day) 5. You’ll make a stop for lunch and one stop for drink. 6. Base camp is at 10,500ft (3500 meters) 7. You start the day at 0930 - arrive by 1130. Start the climb around 1200 and get to base camp around 1700. 8. The next day you summit at 0500 (wakeup 0330) 9. Breakfast after summit 1000 10. Arrive back at beginning at 1800. 11. Taxi/bus pickup is quite disorganized so be prepared for that. 12. If you’re doing this in the winter you need some serious winter gear (rent poles, crampons) you don’t need an ice axe. 13. Overall, absolutely amazing experience but know what you’re walking into.

Tour was well organised. Food and care throughout was excellent. Not a lot was discussed at the start but everything was well taken care of. Use of the mules for additional baggage was extremely handy and we could leave larger Items at the starting village The guide was very good. He kept the group at a good pace. Pace is fast cause of time restrictions between day and nightlight. The refuge had great food. Beds were comfy. We brought a sleeping bag which I would reccomend in the winter months. November was extremely cold. Good winter wear and gloves necessity. Poles were on offer to rent. I would advise doing this. Crampons were available to rent also Would highly reccomend. But would advise a good level of fitness.

Firstly, the communication leading up to this trip was not good. No response to messages sent through Viator or what’s app to the tour provider. We managed to find a number the number and phoned and were advised we would get a message on what’s app with pick up details, but this didn’t come until the morning of the trip about 1 hour before pickup, so we were pleasantly surprised to be going. Our guide Yousef really looked after us at all times, he was very accomplished for his age. As it was a private tour he varied the pace to our needs. We summited mount Toubkal and stayed in the refuge overnight, an experience in itself. Cut off from phone signal with home lovely cooked food, sleeping in giant bunk bed with people of all nationalities - a new experience for us. When we were setting off we were advised that we would need to carry everything we needed for the night so could not take sleeping bags, the refuge had blankets, we were worried but there were more than warm enough. The tour is advertised as having a mule to carry your overnight bag to the refuge, and lots of others had this so unsure why we got switched. The hike was incredible and the tour guide yousef was good. The tour company communication needs improvement.